It is Friday afternoon and you are heading home for the weekend. Today was the last meeting of a 7 member interdisciplinary team that you were a part of. The team met for several months. The task that the team faced was a huge project of downsizing 4 inpatient hospital units. The goal was to consolidate 4 units into 2 without compromising patient care, staff morale or revenue. You did it! You were successful and the team was recognized and rewarded by the University X Healthcare System. You now take the time to reflect on the process, the ups and downs and challenges that brought you and your team members this degree of success. Now that the task is accomplished, you can reflect on your experience and apply your knowledge of group process.
You question whether the process took too long. You recall reading research that reported that groups develop and move through stages quickly with the average group taking 2 -3 weeks to achieve the highest level of development.

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Research on group development, such as Tuckman's stages (forming, storming, norming, performing, adjourning), suggests that groups typically take longer than 2-3 weeks to reach the highest level of development, especially for complex tasks like downsizing hospital units.

It Is Friday Afternoon and You Are Heading Home for the Weekend